{"id":123967,"date":"2025-11-23T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=123967"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:49:12","slug":"insecurity-resign-or-seek-help-pdp-tells-tinubu-as-340-students-abducted-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/insecurity-resign-or-seek-help-pdp-tells-tinubu-as-340-students-abducted-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: Resign or seek help, PDP tells Tinubu as 340 students abducted in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Bola Tinubu to either \u201cseek urgent help or resign honourably\u201d following what it described as an alarming escalation of insecurity across the country, particularly the kidnapping of over 340 students in one week.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a press conference on Sunday in Abuja at the Bauchi State Governors Lodge Asokoro, the PDP expressed deep outrage over the renewed wave of mass abductions, saying the nation had been thrown into a \u201cstate of permanent fear\u201d due to the Federal Government\u2019s inability to guarantee safety of lives and property.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party lamented that Nigeria has, under the current administration, become a safe haven for criminal syndicates, who now operate with unprecedented boldness, raiding schools, villages, highways and even security formations with little resistance.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PDP said the kidnapping of more than 340 students in Kaduna, Sokoto and parts of the North-West within days should have compelled the President to overhaul the country\u2019s security architecture, seek international assistance or step aside for someone capable of confronting the menace.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the opposition party, the silence and \u201clack of urgency\u201d displayed by the Presidency since the incidents occurred further demonstrate the government\u2019s disconnect from the suffering of ordinary Nigerians.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said millions of parents were now afraid to send their children to school, while rural communities have been deserted due to repeated attacks by bandits, terrorists and kidnappers operating freely across several states.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PDP is alarmed that \u201cunder President Tinubu\u2019s watch, over 340 schoolchildren were abducted in just one week, yet there has been no concrete action, no accountability, no strategy and no assurance to Nigerians. This is a catastrophic failure of leadership.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party accused the government of prioritizing politics, international travel and economic policies \u201cthat have compounded poverty,\u201d while neglecting the core responsibility of protecting citizens.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It argued that President Tinubu\u2019s security promises had \u201ccollapsed under the weight of reality,\u201d as bandits now move in convoys, attack schools in broad daylight, and hold hundreds hostage for ransom without consequence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PDP insisted that no responsible government would watch helplessly while children are snatched from classrooms and families are forced into lifelong trauma. It demanded immediate rescue operations for the abducted students, the deployment of modern security technology, improved intelligence coordination and the dismissal of top security chiefs who have failed to deliver results.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also called on the National Assembly to rise above partisan interests and summon the President over the worsening insecurity, saying Nigeria cannot continue \u201con the dangerous path of bloodshed, kidnappings and mass displacement.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PDP maintained that if President Tinubu cannot secure the country, he must \u201cseek help or vacate the office for someone who can.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parents of the abducted students have continued to cry out for government intervention, describing their ordeal as unbearable. 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